Posted on 06/24/2012 6:23:21 AM PDT by rellimpank
There's a lot of crossfire about guns these days. The Obama administration is under siege over Fast and Furious, a federal sting operation that allowed firearms to go to Mexican drug traffickers and was linked to the slaying of a Border Patrol agent. Meanwhile, Chicago is trying to get a handle on fatal shootings that have fueled an increased homicide rate, and the city and some suburbs are conducting gun buyback events this weekend.
1 Around Christmas 1928, Ernest Hemingway came home to Oak Park to attend his father's funeral and asked his mother if he could have the .32 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver that his father had used to kill himself. A few months later, Hemingway's mother shipped him the handgun, along with a chocolate cake.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
people used to ship chocolate cakes???????????????
JFK was a NRA member? didnt know that
JFK also hated commies, bet you didn’t know that either. Still he was a grave sinner and spent most of the time having sex
11. Guns kill people, not ‘people kill people’.
12. If guns were all banned, no one would ever die again.
13. If you shoot at the sun, you can easily put it out.
Yeah, but that was before the era of internet porn.
All Kennedys are lacking in morals. Must be a defect in their DNA...
But Old man Kennedy was the most vile of them all......
yes satan has taken over the souls of most of the male population in this country, they gotta have sex and watch porn and demand their wives act the way they see in the porno
He was before my awareness, so I don’t have any clue about his depravity
that final bar scene in “Shane” is still the best.
shane: so you are wilson. i heard of you
wilson: what have you heard shane?
shane: i heard you are a low down yankee liar
wilson: (right before he dies) Prove it !!
PS: wilson didn’t know shane was a mets fan. ruh roh.
8 John Moses Browning designed a staggering number of famous guns, including the lever-action Winchester repeating rifle, the Browning automatic rifle (BAR), used by the U.S. military in every major conflict from World War I to Vietnam, and the Colt .45. The son of a gunsmith, Browning was 14 when he built his first firearm, a rifle he gave to his brother.
Not quite true. Browning redesigned the Winchester lever action to make the action stronger. The original design was from the "Volcanic" pistol designed in 1855 when Browning was a small child. The Volcanic was redesigned into the Henry Rifle and later the Winchester 1866 and 1873 models, all designed before Browning ever touched one. Also, note that though Browning did design the Colt .45 Auto, but not the 1873 Colt .45 revolver pictured in the article.
After two years of warfare using rifles, I guess Sedgewick was kinda slow on the uptake.
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Joseph Kennedy was a most foul self serving traitor, His antics in London as ambassador during WWII should have gotten him escorted to the gallows.
They forgot the "Ma Deuce" M2 .50 caliber heavy machine gun - still in use today.
9 Earlier this month, two Australian swimmers were barred by that country’s Olympic officials from using social media during the London Games after the pair posted photos of themselves posing with pistols and rifles at a gun shop.
I always see stuff like this coming out of Aus, and it makes me wonder where the manly, rugged, independent spirit, BS comes from. What? Rugby?
Enslave me but let me play rugby and I’m a man?
John Sedgwick’s Famous Last Words
GREAT catch. - shot him under the left eye - Spotsylvania/Laurel Hill
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